Motoman up6 6 axis robot arm industrial

7 Jan 2025

I'm working on a project to build a controller for an industrial robot arm motoman up 6. I would love to see suggestions. Ben looking at robodk it's a bit expensive. The maker of ar4 robot arm says his software will work. I'm thinking ros simulink and Matlab. The survos have encoders so I've been looking into projects with pwm survo drive extension adafruit seems a bit small. So I've been finding some Arduino pwm survo drive extensions. I have compleat documentation of the robot arm specs and io. I've seen some GitHub stuff for motoman up6 have yet to delve into it all. Just eager to get some quality suggestions. So here it is. Some of the industrial survo drivers for encoders price is more than I paid for the robot.

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shabaz 7 months ago

I think there's zero chance of any project out there that would be able to drive those servos. You're looking at high current and voltages (maybe 100V or mains; no idea, depends on your particular hardware). I think it will be way cheaper to buy ready-made (could be used servo drives from ebay for instance) rather than to DIY in this case, even if it's costing a few hundred $ per drive used.

But all the above is speculation, I've never tried to create one from scratch. I know my limits though.
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shabaz 7 months ago

I think there's zero chance of any project out there that would be able to drive those servos. You're looking at high current and voltages (maybe 100V or mains; no idea, depends on your particular hardware). I think it will be way cheaper to buy ready-made (could be used servo drives from ebay for instance) rather than to DIY in this case, even if it's costing a few hundred $ per drive used.

But all the above is speculation, I've never tried to create one from scratch. I know my limits though.
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